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Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Pudalangai Kootu(Snakegourd & Dhal Curry)

Pudalangai kootu, a vegetarian side dish and a specialty recipe from Tamilnadu often served with rice and sambhar/rasam. Kootu meaning vegetables cooked along with dhal in coocnut paste. This is one of my favourite side dish. Here's the recipe.

Ingredients

1/4 kg of Snake Gourd

3 tbsp Split Bengal Gram

1 tsp Mustard Seeds

a pinch of turmeric powder

Few Curry Leaves

Salt to taste

To Grind

3 tbsp of grated Coconut

4 pods of Garlic

1 tsp Cumin seeds

3 Green Chillies

1 sprig Curry leaves

Method

Soak the chana dal/split bengal gram in water for 15 to 30 Min's.

Wash the snake gourd and split open and remove the seeds and chop them into small pieces and keep.

Cook the dhal by adding enough water and pinch of turmeric powder,when its 3/4th cooked remove from the flame.

Heat oil in a wok/kadai, when hot add mustard seeds and allow it to splutter.

Add curry leaves and fry for 3 seconds.

Then add the chopped snake gourd pieces and dhal to it and cover and cook till its 3/4th done.

Next add the ground paste and cook till the raw smell goes off, between stir once and add salt to it and mix well.